Tuff Home residents experience 'A Night on Mount Olympus'
The day after Hills-Beaver Creek High School hosted a junior-senior prom for students, residents from Tuff Memorial Home donned dresses and suits Saturday afternoon for their first
State offers info on 2026 Hwy 75 work
Minnesota Department of Transportation personnel were in Luverne Tuesday, April 23, to discuss the 2026 Highway 75 construction project.
'Marlene and Darlene without George'
“Marlene and Darlene” will return to the stage next week for another comedy performance to raise money for Generations.
Emerald ash borer officially reported in Rock County
Infestations of the destructive emerald ash borer have been spreading across Minnesota over the past 15 years, and on Monday the Minnesota Department of Agriculture confirmed the first sighting
LHS competes in world robotics
The Luverne High School robotics team earned a Judges Choice Award at last week’s FIRST Robotic Competition World.
Sled hockey comes to Blue Mound Ice Arena
The Siouxland Sled Hockey Association brought on-ice practice to the Blue Mound Ice Arena in Luverne for the first time April 7 in honor of their newest member.
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- By Mavis FodnessMarch 02, 2021Construction of the first commercial solar farm in Rock County won’t start until next year. Letters were sent to landowners in Vienna Township indicating National Grid Renewables won’t start construction on the 80-megawatt solar energy facility on 720 acres north of Magnolia in 2021 as planned. Lindsay Smith is a spokesperson for National Grid Renewables, which acquired Geronimo Energy,…
- By Mavis FodnessMarch 02, 2021A group of third-grade friends at Luverne Elementary School are selling bookmarks and bracelets and giving the proceeds to local organizations and families. The Bookmark and Bracelet Club, organized just after the school’s Christmas break, was Harper Phelps’ idea. “I wanted to help people with good deeds,” she said last week. “For people in need to get better.” Fourteen girls are in the club with…
- By Mavis FodnessMarch 02, 2021A month into the 2021 speech season, Luverne High School senior Destiny Matthiesen is getting used to the new tournament format that the coronavirus pandemic has forced on the normally in-person activity. Notably, there are fewer people. “It is different seeing only eight to 10 people when it was 30 people,” she said. This is Matthiesen’s sixth year competing in the extemporaneous reading…
- By Lori SorensonMarch 02, 2021Sixth-graders in Deb Hoogendoorn’s English class have been reading “Woodsong,” an autobiography by Gary Paulsen, a northern Minnesota sled dog racer. As the class discussed what they knew about sled dogs and the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Hoogendoorn learned that Stacy Thone has a connection to a musher who is racing in the 2021 Iditarod Saturday. Thone’s son, Coy, is in Hoogendoorn’s class,…
- By Lori SorensonFebruary 23, 2021Three hundred seventy-six people registered to fish in Saturday’s Get Hooked Fishing Derby at The Lake in Luverne Saturday. “It was unbelievable,” said Chamber Director Jane Wildung Lanphere. “It just blows my mind that we had that many people down there at The Lake. … I would bet we had 175 to 200 who had never fished the tournament before.” Skies were overcast, but temperatures rose into the…
- By Mavis FodnessFebruary 23, 2021For the first time in nearly a year, Luverne High School mock trial members met as a team for an in-person trial performance Thursday night, Feb. 18, at Grand Prairie Events in Luverne. The 13 students presented a trial showcase for parents in preparation for next week’s state competition. Through masks and limited movement in front of a podium, students were together in the same room for the…
- By Mavis FodnessFebruary 23, 2021Feb. 18 marked the 100th day of the 2020-21 school year at Luverne Public Schools, and staff and students couldn’t be happier. Elementary students resumed in-person instruction after the Christmas break, and middle school and high school students ended distance-learning classes on Jan. 26. It marked the first time in 317 days that all 1,200 students were together on the school campus since the…
- By Lori SorensonFebruary 23, 2021ATLAS of Rock County is expanding into the former Kawasaki building with a goal of expanding its Christian ministry in more directions. The organization recently purchased the property on Maple and Freeman where it will expand its Redeemed Remnants second-hand business. ATLAS Board president Brenda Winter was among volunteers Friday morning painting, cleaning and assisting contractor Tony Gacke…
- By Mavis FodnessFebruary 23, 2021Gene and Barb Ashby’s bike path in memory of their son, Chris, will be completed this summer after two years of planning with local officials. The Ashbys have pledged $1 million toward the project and requested matching funds either by labor, grants or other funds from the county. The 1.35-mile hard-surface Ashby Recreational Trail will connect the Luverne City Park to County Road 9 near the golf…
- February 23, 2021The fire protection service protection contract between the Hills Fire Department and Clinton Township is $550 per section from April 15 through April 14, 2022. The per section amount was incorrect in the Feb. 18 edition.
- By Mavis FodnessFebruary 23, 2021Fifteen Rock County businesses shared $250,000 of coronavirus relief grants awarded Friday. The grants were the result of a special state $216 million coronavirus recovery legislation passed in December. Commissioners outlined a targeted distribution approach in January and asked the 21 businesses most impacted in Rock County to make application. The county identified businesses closed during the…
- By Mavis FodnessFebruary 23, 2021Nearly 11 months after laying off its local workforce at the Agri-Energy LLC in Luverne, parent company Gevo Inc. has no immediate plans to rehire and resume full production. Gevo officials did, however, recently announce the home for a new production plant would be built on 240 acres near Lake Preston, South Dakota. The new plant called Net-Zero 1 would produce 45 million gallons of renewable…
- By Mavis FodnessFebruary 23, 2021A state FFA program awarded 12 Hills-Beaver Creek High School FFA Chapter members their official blue membership jackets. Each year the Minnesota FFA Foundation selects students through online application for the Blue Jackets Bright Futures program. Students Amallia Ternus, Layla Deelstra, Lanae Elbers, Damion Meinerts, Carter Vande Voort, Riley Tage, Alexis Gardner-Swenson, Larissa Steinhoff,…
- By Mavis FodnessFebruary 23, 2021Agriculture instructor Cloey Anderson plans to have students redesign a vegetable garden on the grounds of the Hills-Beaver Creek Secondary School in Hills. Anderson was awarded an agricultural education summer grant through the Minnesota Department of Education. The $1,731 grant doubles Anderson’s summer contract from 10 to 20 hours. “With those days I will be attending more professional…
- February 23, 2021A.C.E. of Southwest Minnesota is presenting the second one act play about memory loss in their online educational series titled “In the Garden,” by Matthew Widman, the Memory Care Plays Anthology. The production is an educational tool for both community and families navigating through the Alzheimer’s/Dementia decision-making process. This free virtual play will be offered at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb…
- By Lori SorensonFebruary 16, 2021The city of Luverne’s standby generator in the power plant was called into service Monday to help support a regional power grid under pressure from a record cold snap in the south. Winter storm “Uri” with frigid temperatures is moving slowly eastward across the southern part of the states dropping snow – and temperatures — as far south as the Gulf of Mexico. Millions of homes and businesses in 10…
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